Here are some excerpts of John Greenleaf Whittiers writings found in "John Bartlett Familiar Quotations". "When faith is lost, when honor dies The man is dead!" ( Ichabod) For of all sad words of...
Yes, John Bartlett Familiar Quotations contain poetry. It is an example: " Tell me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!" For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what...
He began keeping a commonplace book of quotations to answer queries and in 1855 privately printed the first edition of his Familiar Quotations. That edition of 258 pages contained entries from 169...